Yahweh Is My Strength and My Shield

¹To You, O Yahweh, I call;

My rock, do not be silent to me,

Lest if You are hesitant toward me,

I will become like those who go down to the pit.

²Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help,

When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

³Do not drag me away with the wicked

And with workers of iniquity,

Who speak peace with their neighbors,

While evil is in their hearts.

⁴Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their actions;

Give to them according to the deeds of their hands;

Return their dealings upon them.

⁵Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh

Nor the deeds of His hands,

He will tear them down and not build them up.

⁶¶Blessed be Yahweh,

Because He has heard the voice of my supplications.

⁷Yahweh is my strength and my shield;

My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped;

Therefore my heart exults,

And with my song I shall thank Him.

⁸Yahweh is their strength,[#28:8 A few mss and ancient versions the strength of His people]

And He is a strong defense of salvation to His anointed.

⁹Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;

Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.